Recent content by ashhutch1997

Just rewatched it, Contador was completely isolated and was cracking, Di Luca, Ricco and Menchov bridged across to Franco Pellizotti, who'd attacked earlier on the Giau. Once they caught him they eased up, which made no sense as Contador was really cracking. It was Julio Pérez of all riders who...

Nah if I remember correctly Ricco and Di Luca started looking at eachover and nutralised eachover out.

Money talks, the Fifa world cup in 2026 is being held across the an entire continent, and in 2030 is being held in two different continents. Not exactly great for the climate, but money is more important to these organizations at the end of the day. I was looking at this route, there are some...

In general, the 2024 Giro was a horrible race, but it did some entertaining stages. However, the 2025 Giro in my opinion was the best edition since 2018. It could've been an all time great edition, but the poor route let it down. There were plenty of stages where the riders wanted to race...

Yeah a 2017 style stage would've been much better, but the Semonzetto side was used twice in 2024.

Yes that could be true, however they could potentially swap the stages around using the same start/ finish locations, something like; Alessandria - Pila Aosta - Verbania (replica of the 1992 stage) You are right about this years route, we could've had an all time edition if the stages were...

The Verbania stage is a big missed opportunity for this IMO. They could have a great stage with Monte Ologno and Alpe Segletta with a decent to Verbania.

IMO the 2011 Giro is very overatted on here, had some good mountain stages on stage 13, 14 and obviously stage 15. But the last week was terrible, we literally had a bunch ride up Finestre, as pretty much everyone was on their knees, it was just too hard. It literally cost Zomegnan his job as...

On a side note, stage 15 to Milan is one of the worst penultimate Sunday I've ever seen in a Giro, make it a flat ITT, and make stage 10 ITT a bit more undulating and you've got a better route.

The proposed Santa Cristina stage in 2024 with the stelvio 150km from the finish is a good candidate.

Obviously, but what I mean is that it fatigues the riders nicely before the Giau, if someone wanted to blow the race apart on the Giau.

The Duran is a very tough climb, it blew the race apart in the 2005 Giro.

True, but the approach to the Giau is harder than the Finestre in 2018.

The Piani di Pezze gives me Finestre/Bardonecchia vibes from 2018, very hard climb/ shallow climb/ valley then short steep climb. If it works and the race breaks up on the Gaui we could have a legendary stage, however, if it doesn't work we could have a very underwhelming stage where nothing...

Going to be a nightmare for commentators to tell the difference between them and Quickstep.